Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
by umanwizard on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:41AM
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Yes, your understanding is correct.
Grammatical accord overrides physical gender for pronoun choice in French.
I know very little French, but if I understand correctly, because person in French is female (la personne), you could have a sentence mentioning "the persons" (plural) (les personnes?), and then later on using the pronoun "elles" (female version of "they") to refer to them. So a female-coded pronoun would refer to a mixed-gender group of people.